iOS hardware encryption is better than nothing - but only slightly better. It rarely protects against an attacker with any skill who has physical access to the iPhone, for several reasons:
1. At best, it's only as good as the PIN used - most people use a four-digit PIN - that can be cracked very easily 2. Only some applications have their data encrypted (it's opt-in). 3. An "escrow keybag" that's used to decrypt everything is kept on any computers that sync with the iPhone - so if the user's home computer is compromised, so is their phone.
So generally it's only really useful for the remote-wipe feature. Which can be defeated by simply wrapping the phone in tin-foil or removing the SIM, then copying the data.
Needlessly difficult in places for people like me who are a bit color-blind - the red radar is impossible to see on some levels, as are some enemies.
And that bit on the second level against the long enemy is so "difficult" as to be broken. It's not fun difficult, just annoying.
Buying gold from other players doesn't make inflation, it just makes wealth distribution more efficient. Only cheating, or buying gold newly minted by the game, makes inflation.
Time=money. The grinding nature of most MMORPGs means that gaining wealth/exp takes very little skill, just lots of time. Spending money is often more fun and a better use of your time.
That's crap. More cores do not translate into a direct performance increase - there is a lot of overhead, and it only helps at all if the task is parallizable. Also programming for multi-core is MUCH slower/more difficult/bug-prone.
First you say Firefox is too heavy, then you advocate using external programs (instead of extensions) for things Opera doesn't do (eg. AdBlock - no, there is no Opera equivalent because Opera still downloads the ads). Firefox + extensions is probably smaller and faster than Opera + equivalent applications.
But anyway, I think that Opera will take from Firefox's market share, now that it's free, because it is nicer out-of-the-box for most people (Firefox is a bit too lean without any extensions), and it's less buggy.
Keeping the wealthy from becoming so wealthy that they are above laws and social norms is, I think, more important.
That's stupid and wrong. The system is designed so that (theoretically) no matter how much money you have, you're not above the law. It doesn't try to stop anyone becoming wealthy (it would be pointless to try anyway).
As for being "above social norms" - what's wrong with that, may I ask? Many social norms are quite rotten.
I live in New Zealand, and I've never known someone to pay before pumping! I suppose we're a "more rural part of the world where people are much more trustworthy":)
I attended a lecture held by one of the members of this team about exactly this subject in 2001 at university.
He discussed how difficult the problem was and admitted that his research would probably not be incorporated into a rover design for at least ten years, considering NASA's necessary technological conservatism.
The problem includes continually adjusting torque independently for each of the six wheels and complex continuous decision-making based on remaining power, expected power usage for a particular task, and the value of the task to the scientists.
In other words, most of any rover's available power will be wasted until NASA incorporates this research.
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iOS hardware encryption is better than nothing - but only slightly better. It rarely protects against an attacker with any skill who has physical access to the iPhone, for several reasons:
1. At best, it's only as good as the PIN used - most people use a four-digit PIN - that can be cracked very easily
2. Only some applications have their data encrypted (it's opt-in).
3. An "escrow keybag" that's used to decrypt everything is kept on any computers that sync with the iPhone - so if the user's home computer is compromised, so is their phone.
So generally it's only really useful for the remote-wipe feature. Which can be defeated by simply wrapping the phone in tin-foil or removing the SIM, then copying the data.
Figureheads have some real power but are still figureheads. The President can only act according to the information that is given to him.
None of those things are story (plot).
Needlessly difficult in places for people like me who are a bit color-blind - the red radar is impossible to see on some levels, as are some enemies. And that bit on the second level against the long enemy is so "difficult" as to be broken. It's not fun difficult, just annoying.
Buying gold from other players doesn't make inflation, it just makes wealth distribution more efficient. Only cheating, or buying gold newly minted by the game, makes inflation. Time=money. The grinding nature of most MMORPGs means that gaining wealth/exp takes very little skill, just lots of time. Spending money is often more fun and a better use of your time.
That's crap. More cores do not translate into a direct performance increase - there is a lot of overhead, and it only helps at all if the task is parallizable. Also programming for multi-core is MUCH slower/more difficult/bug-prone.
Is there really an Opera equivalent to AdBlock? AFAIK Opera adblocking is just CSS hiding - it still downloads the ads.
First you say Firefox is too heavy, then you advocate using external programs (instead of extensions) for things Opera doesn't do (eg. AdBlock - no, there is no Opera equivalent because Opera still downloads the ads). Firefox + extensions is probably smaller and faster than Opera + equivalent applications. But anyway, I think that Opera will take from Firefox's market share, now that it's free, because it is nicer out-of-the-box for most people (Firefox is a bit too lean without any extensions), and it's less buggy.
As far as I can see, those are CSS blocks. You still download the ads. So it's not good enough for people on dialup like me.
I get a bigger font when I push the wheel up. Maybe some extension of mine is doing it...
Even better - I use rightmouse+mousewheel =)
Yes - try http://firemonger.org/
Yes - eg. http://firemonger.org/
I live in New Zealand, and I've never known someone to pay before pumping! I suppose we're a "more rural part of the world where people are much more trustworthy" :)
Erm, Slashdot reported this almost exactly a year ago...
What is it that you prefer in Picasa over Picasa 2?
Disregarding the proven fact that increased drug usage in a country leads to increased crime o_O
scrub that, the article said "most settlements are for $3000". And they don't take your computer.
minimum $3,000, plus they consider you a criminal and take your computer...
Buying a very accurate cordless mouse is like buying a very accurate gun with a short range.
A USB 2.0 connection is many times faster than the wireless connection these mouses use.
The increased accuracy is pretty pointless when the wireless mouse has such a low polling rate.
I attended a lecture held by one of the members of this team about exactly this subject in 2001 at university.
He discussed how difficult the problem was and admitted that his research would probably not be incorporated into a rover design for at least ten years, considering NASA's necessary technological conservatism.
The problem includes continually adjusting torque independently for each of the six wheels and complex continuous decision-making based on remaining power, expected power usage for a particular task, and the value of the task to the scientists.
In other words, most of any rover's available power will be wasted until NASA incorporates this research.
Answer: You tack.
I agree with most of this... but the implication that God is sinning ("gets his hands dirty") by killing doesn't make much sense.